Cassandra CQL3 internal data structure

Aug 13, 2013 1 min read

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I’m a huge fan of cassandra, I’ve been playing with it since 0.7 and I’ve never stopped using it. It would say it’s most amazing features are: Always working and simple replication + predictable performances.

I was very happy when it went from a key-value store to a well structured database with CQL. With CQL you can focus on your data, and less on how you should organize your own structure to handle it properly. Still, behind the wheels, it works the same (it’s still a KV store). That’s why it’s very important to understand how the internal structure is done: